MP Sarah Tanzilli (Renaissance) denounces the holding of the second round of the presidential elections in a room connected to a mosque in Décines-Charpieu.
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Sarah Tanzilli also considers that the choice of this polling station allowed the creation of a “climate of fear” during the first round of voting, pointing in particular to the threats to which the representatives of the opposition parties to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan were subjected. She recalls that several of them had the tyres of their vehicles slashed and, above all, that four assessors from the left-green YSP party were violently attacked on Tuesday May 9 as they were leaving the polling station after the polls closed. “Last week’s acts of violence have an irrevocable effect on the loss of confidence of some Turkish-French citizens to go to the polls in this environment,” confides the MP, explaining that she is “thinking especially of those who are otherwise Kurds, Alevis or Armenians”.
The mayor of Décines-Charpieu, Laurence Fautra (LR), contacted by Le Point, is also “outraged” that the election took place in a mosque in her commune. “Neither the consulate, nor the prefecture, nor the association running the mosque had the decency to warn us,” she frets, stressing that the organisation of the first round of voting “led to numerous disturbances that the town hall had to deal with”, mainly due to “wild parking. The city police issued over 200 parking violation tickets and towed away vehicles that blocked the parking spaces of businesses in the area”. Le Point